Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday indicted twelve Russian individuals with hacking the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, as well as stealing personal information of approximately half a million American votes over the same period, the United States Department of Justice announced. All defendants are members of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate's division GRU, having been accused of targeting Hillary Clinton's campaign and leaking emails meant to hurt her chances of winning the election under pseudonyms “Guccifer 2.0” and “DCLeaks,” as well...Read more ...

Enlarge / Red Square in Moscow, circa 1990. (credit: DEA / W. BUSS/De Agostini/Getty Images)
The US Justice Department on Friday filed criminal indictments that accused 12 Russian intelligence officers of carrying out the 2016 hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
The indictments were filed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investing possible collusion between the presidential campaign of President Donald Trump and the Russian spies US intelligence agencies say interfered with the 2016 election. So far, Mueller's team has indicted 32...Read more ...